Two sleepers get tangled in eachother’s dreams. A fish swallows their licking tongues in a whirlpool of colour. The colouring book of a thousand and one nights spills over all lines.

The animation by Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano and director Mike Smith is a visualisation for a concert by The Los Angeles Philharmonic playing music by David Newman conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. From Arabian Nights they have picked the story of the Chinese princess Budou’s (Badoura) romance. The animation is screened as a digital file.

Cat Soup (2001)

If a storm cloud were a bird, would it perform circus tricks for cats? In the surrealistic world of Cat Soup butterflies have hinges and the clockwork of time gets easily twisted out of joint.

The animation directed in 2001 by Tatsuo Satou is based on manga comics. The cult animation has not been widely screened in cinemas, but has circulated among the fans as a video release. Flood tides rise and fall unexpectedly on the bloody and wacky journey of two cute cats trough free association.